Should American Muslims worry about Obama?

Posted Thu, 11/20/2008 - 01:29 by admin

I believe this is a question that many of us have been thinking about for some time now, however we have been secretly trying to hide our urges to ponder these thoughts by overwhelming them with optimism.
There have been several documented instances throughout the 2008 campaign that made us leery as a community, such as [...]

Dick Cheney is a Criminal, Indicted in Texas!

Posted Wed, 11/19/2008 - 21:37 by admin

Alhamdulillah! Obama, please keep Guantanamo Bay open for Dick Cheney but free everyone else.
Texas grand jury indicts Cheney, Gonzales of crime
HOUSTON (Reuters) - A grand jury in South Texas indicted U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and former attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Tuesday for “organized criminal activity” related to alleged abuse of inmates in [...]

finally

Posted Wed, 11/19/2008 - 21:04 by admin

I finally got my Eid present.  Nope, not the husband’s fault.  I ordered Treatise For The Seekers Of Guidance a few days before Eid and promptly forgot about it.  A week ago, I remembered and was like, where the heck is that book?  Before I had a chance to email and ask, I received an [...]

hajj!

Posted Wed, 11/19/2008 - 20:20 by admin

Of hajj related interest:
To watch

Channel 4’s Hajj Program
National Geographic’s Inside Mecca Documentary
Discovery Channel’s Revealed: the Hajj
CNN’s 2006 coverage
Al Jazeera English Youtube videos - search “hajj”

To read

One Thousand Roads to Mecca: Ten Centuries of Traveler’s Writings on the Muslim Pilgrimage
Mecca, the Blessed - Medina, the Radiant
IslamOnline’s Hajj Page
Oneness of God and Humanity by Ibrahim N. Abusharif

To [...]

LIFE photo archive

Posted Wed, 11/19/2008 - 18:14 by admin

Google announced yesterday that it was making available 10 million images from Life magazine’s archives (photos and etchings) dating back to the 1750s. Only a small percentage of the images have even been published. The rest have been “sitting in dusty archives in the form of negatives, slides, glass plates, etchings, and prints.” At this [...]

In brief: BNP list leaked

Posted Wed, 11/19/2008 - 16:40 by admin

BNP Members List Leaked
The link has the full list.  There isn’t a single Muslim name on there. Further evidence of their Islamophobia.
For those who are unaware, these chaps are a far-right racist pary.  The BNP have run a vicious anti-Muslim campaign over the last 10 years or so, and continue to do so.

Glenn Greenwald: Bipartisanship is not change

Posted Wed, 11/19/2008 - 14:35 by admin

Glenn Greenwald, a constitutional lawyer, and a antiwar liberal, discusses why Joe Liberman’s appointment today as chairman of - of all committees - the Homeland Security Committee, is not change but a tradition of bipartisan cooperation in destroying the country.  To quote Greenwald:
 Look at every major Bush initiative, every controversial signature Bush policy over the [...]

Rahm: Never want a serious crisis to go to waste

Posted Wed, 11/19/2008 - 14:29 by admin

The main impetus of the growth of Big Government Leviathan, throughout the history of every democratic nation, has been through crisis.  Woodrow Wilson used World War I to centralize government in accordance to his progressive theory of presidential based policymaking.  Franklin Roosevelt took advantage of the Great Depression to bring statism to our shores.  George [...]

Two Sides of the Same Coin

Posted Wed, 11/19/2008 - 14:07 by admin

On foreign policy, the democrats and the GOP are two sides of the same coin.  Sure, there are a few pro-peace international law abiding democrats like Dennis Kucinich in the House, and sure there are noninterventionists and realist republicans - like Chuck Hagel and Ron Paul.  But, for the most part, the interventionist strand of [...]

How Tarek Fatah got it wrong on both “honor” killing and domestic violence

Posted Wed, 11/19/2008 - 14:00 by admin

Recently, there has been much discussion in the media over the use of the term “honor killing”. Is the term racist? Does it implicate Islam for killings that are not religiously sanctioned? Are “honor killings” really domestic violence that is no different from domestic violence that occurs in every society?
The National Post published a feature [...]